BIB_ID
447045
Accession number
MA 14549.8
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1873? June 23
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.7 cm
Notes
Written on paper watermarked "1873."
Dated "Monday, June 23"; year of writing suggested by internal evidence; Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh, the Shah of Persia visited England as part of his tour of Europe in 1873.
Forms part of a collection of letters by English journalist, author, and editor, Frederick Greenwood (1830-1909), and other members of the Greenwood family.
Dated "Monday, June 23"; year of writing suggested by internal evidence; Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh, the Shah of Persia visited England as part of his tour of Europe in 1873.
Forms part of a collection of letters by English journalist, author, and editor, Frederick Greenwood (1830-1909), and other members of the Greenwood family.
Inscriptions/Markings
With marks and annotations by former owner in pencil.
Provenance
Purchased from the estate of J.W. Robertson Scott; bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Urging her stay on where she is for the sake of her health; mentioning that he is going to take "the boy" (i.e. his son Edgar) and "little Léonie" to the Crystal Palace ; writing that he had a very "fatiguing week last week. On Friday I was at the grand Guildhall Ball to the Shah ... On Saturday there was a State performance at the Opera House", and mentioning some invitations he received for the occasion; expressing his pride in his children whom he describes as possessing "good clear heads, and good wholesome minds".
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